Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-01-28
6eneral 11eps.
DOM ESTIC.

Inc secretary OF the treasury has call
ed in Sl3, sS4, 900 three per cents.
The estimated expenses for collecting
the customs revenues for the next fiscal
year are SG,540.S13.
II. l.. Ross house at Fern City. Pa.
was burned Monday afternoon. and his
four children were cremated.
The lower house of the Illinois legisla-
ture has passed a bill approprating $50
600 for Logan monument.
Jonas G.. Clark of Hubbardstown.
Mass, has given Sl,O0O.OOO to found
Clark university at Worcester, Mass.
The Nebraska Legislature has elected
a. ;. Paddock to his former seat in the
Senate. retiring Van Wyck to private
life.
There are III vessels engaged in the
whale fishery of the United States. The
Arctic fleet took l53 whales. The season
was Improbable.
The National Line steamship America
has been sold to the Italian government
and it is supposed that she will be used
as the flagship of the torpedo squadron.
An express train in Texas was stopped
by armed robbers early Sunday morning.
The express car and the mails were rob-
bed. but the passengers were not molest-
ed.
The trial of John O'Neil. tine third
Doodle alderman to be placed at the bar
for bribery in the Broadway franchise
matter at New York city, was begun
Monday.
\ New York policeman, while chasing
"A fugitive from justice at noon recently,
fired two shots. He missed the fugitive.
but killed an innocent man standing in
his own store door.
Gen. Charles p. Stone. who in recent
years rendered conspicuous services in
the Egyptian army, is dead at New York.
His later work was TO superintend the
construction of the statue of Liberty.
An old Italian named Meucc has turn
ed up in Chicago, and claims that his dis
covery of the telephone and his caveat,
which was sent to the Patent office, an
tedated Prof. Bells patent about four
years.
Many gentlemen interested in the his
tory of this country have memorialized
Congress to procure digest and cata-
logue of the numerous documents found
in the public and private archives in Eu-
rope relating to the early history of the
nited States. prepared by Benjamin
Franklin Stevens. and covering $4,000
pages.
\ negro desperate named Lewis Smp-
son was killed near Hampton, Ark. sat
urday. lie was chased by two men and
had taken refuge in a deserted cabin,
where he kept his pursuers at bay for
hours. The men then set fire to the hut
the negro ran out and was riddled with
bullets.
Lawrence krug of Chicago is charged
with poisoning his step-daughter, Lucy
Heidelmeyer, who died recently, and his
thicd wife, and also with four other MUIR
ders, his object being to obtain insurance
on the lives of his victims. The bodies of
some of them are being exhumed for
analysis.
A Chicago lady. while recently riding
in Colorado stage coach, was precipi-
tated down precipice 400 feet, landing
in a snow drift at the bottom, and the
only injury she received was from the
shovel while the men were digging her
out of the snow. Other passengers who
lodged $50 feet from the top were terribly
injured.
The west-bound passenger train on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad was
totally wrecked Sunday morning by the
explosion of the locomotive. The bag
gage and mail ear and the two passenger
coaches were ditched and badly smashed.
The engineer and fireman were instantly
killed and two out of the 10 passengers
seriously hurt.
Archbishop Corrigan makes public
statement of the whole controversy be-